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•Via. S UNCONSIUER s.D TIMBER. I]W«#*•!^toHMfer the consumption •of wood to such causes as the demand £ -fcri»g »n<l fingineerimr purposes, Also such inlnoiidemands aiTthe luf ifer match and roau-making industries •tUflaal*. t»t* is, trtie'thrift tbtese Are the principal means byT %hioh wood ~ consumed"llOJiis "and other coun- ie&LfciftJ$Kt^r stre countless1 other irm$ng6 lb swell the sum total W»MWi«»anfc-<Ugree» **& yet which are feftki "comparative obscur­ ity, for few persons- think of them. Ap, in AmeMc* faiip-tfood is much used fof triakinr wooden Bbtfls, And fqjrjhe heaths pf hfUt brooms ojP; brushes, for eating1 and drink­ ing troughs of cattle, and no Inconsid­ erable portion furnishes wood for In- .it^dlMi jernea. One of the principal •MlMKtti ofthteholly, -dyed black, is to be substituted for ebony, in the handles )f teapots, etc., and the strong,* UsE$ Of species of wood except lance-wood. ' The common European elm is used for tfty<--i'l«Ku» of u--in, ard ttm\ Tgg^sltramber gunwale, tfie hlopkfu.etc., of ships. It is everywhere preferred by wheel­ wrights for the naves and fellies of wheels; and lor other objects. White cedar setves many subsidiary purposes From it are fabrioated pail 9, jvaab-iubs . and, ohurns of different forma. The best planks for shoemakers and glovers upon which tp out their leather, and is fnittxtcgisiveiv used ia the manufacture of f(mTii i ani Tunbridge ware, and by the turner for pill-boxes, etc., and the in-* ^ lifer ' bftrSf is made ihty ropes aifod mat- The gyeanjbre furbishes Wood' for cheese and cider presses, Triangles, M jpte., {ind when the wooden Wishes and -- <#PPPns were in cqmmon use they were .-(jflfsily i»ade of this wood- It is now used in printing and bleaching works, for beetling beams, and in casjt-iron to ffeuridrites for miking patterns.' The is used by the turner, and .made in- iX* 'Vases/ snuff-boxes and musical iu- '"^truments, and it'is p, comnion saying . Among the inhabitants of New Forest •I Aat •• a post of vew will outlast a post Jr.-pf iron.1' Where it is found in snffi- :»diciest* quantities -to be employed for works under ground, such 4s wkter- pipes* pumps, the yaw will last ponger than any other wood. Gatp A,t acid stakes of yew are ad- „«,»,j|tirable in wear, ana in- France the wood makes the strongest of all wooden axle-trees. Of the beech are , planes»t screws, wooden shovels, l? sconrfhroh 1 fowling-pieces, ; and muskets are also stocked with it, and fteech staves for hearing barrels are not «?i|yiown. , The sweet or Spanish *,t€li4stn^t ̂ viVnisheg gate aijd other* potts, upfi parrel staves, hop-poles and •Other such matters, as strong and good charcoal, th.QUgh scarcely equal tq jthak^f oak fcr domestic purposes j ;|ffrt^eprisidered superior tp that)' of ' °Uier for forges, for which pur- hiiOPm 4P *s mueh used in Spain, and al­ so in Switzerland. Horn-beam is th© Jbest wood that can be used for cogs of tritf-toerts, Excelling either the crab or the "Wlfcew, but its application in this maimer -•"l* About at an end. *A§ a fuel it stands **fn -Hie highest rank, emitting much heat, burning long, and with a bright, ti»pe. :• 1# charcoal it is also •Jiijfiirty prized*, not only for oulinary : §H|f peek's and the forge, but also for the bntfpflirafaogure of gunpowder, into tl wjMnfc oB tbe Continent, it enters in |lt«ftirg«i^R«if^rti«(l. - III Russia, many of the roads are formed of the' trunks of •tli^cotph trees |rom «4x inches •to a Foot in dfaiii'eter at the larger end selected for the purpose. These .* lire laid down side by side; across the -'•"TOiUiiided road, the thick end of one al- ^ttfrifatfng with the narrow end of the -other, the'- branches being left at the orra a sort- of hedsre on each the road. When thus laid, the §**4n>li$ws4M3P tilled up with earth, and* •vtiPit- i dadia finished, being analogous to Ib4ie jj«wdfuroy roads of North America. i«*te OMMAkny, casks are made of larch, almost indestructible, and al- 'lows of no evaporation of the spkit- •ousparticles of the wine CQptained in „ ^iiieift *?m Switzerland it i$ much used -ml ^ -whu;h are never taken lUWPj^ftd wl^ch see ctop after crop of % sprung up, befit their fruit and 'AmMfriab'at their feet, witnout showing of dee«y. »?The uninjured state ia -^tMeh It remains When * buried1 or immersed in water ren- w uers if an excellent iiiateriai.f« water- pi pes, to which purpose it is largely yflr jfplkiAamimany parts of iFmnce.^ The esteemed for'Cbe posts an4 Alrali fences in Anierlca, for *g%s- %St the uso of: cattle, for corn {wdbtie|i\l!shjbs. Shell-bark **J8rcKWtVW6tides baskets, whip-handles of Windsor chairs. The frt^wt hickory is preferred to any other for ire^a #tnd ax-handles The sugar maple is used by wheel- ax:l«-tree® End spots, and * mm nibtf'tlie runrfers of common sleds. Tls used for the handles of tools, such as mallets, small vises, «tc, In the country it furnishes har- tefe$fi tb, the Amefipan farmer, and w^urfjte tjhe liarnes of houses' collars, &&+ ,m lining for the runners of Pledges. The mountain laurel is select- m «4 fyr ^ie Randies of light tools, for ^ boxes, etc. It most re- boxwood, and is most proper a^ply its place. 3owls and trays t« v# Wlide of red birch, and when sap- »*jJiiugB ofdiickory or white oak are not to |>«4>e fpuaKlt beops, particularly those of l ice ar« made of the young stocks •and of branches not exceeding one inch .fin diameter. Its twigs-are exclusively II -chosen for the brooms with which the gg^sireets and courtyards are swept. The kwitwigs of the other species of birch, be- -ilMPg less supple and more brittle, .are -«t«n(»t proper for this use. Shoe last® are t« made from black birch, but they are esteemed than those of beech. !m- <lt »ense quantities of wooden shoes ar«f made in France from the'wood of th* tf^fiomfeoh Ehtope^n alder, which are seasoned by fire before they are sold. ^he locust is substituted ^ox turners in many species Mi \ wofk, such as salt-cellars. » « ^ii^0wl8* ^dlestick#, spoous aud iJka^ salad, bqxes and many other object", which are carefully fJ^ht jnto pleasant shapes and sold W„ P?iwes- The olive is used to form w*m>ik ttraaajeutal articles, sueh as gU^r^niing cases,, tobacco-bosBB, etc. ^'{fh^hweod of the roots, which is thore agne^biy aiaarbied, is preferred, and V> for f inlaying it ^ is invaluable. Of HHj pfintmBon turners tnake large screws, ^naad'tisfheti tti All»<ttf. Also shoemakers' 1 asM-nxis itiWfe of it equal to beech, and •#*for th«! "sh'aftfe' df chaises if has been W*I&un(j preferable to a&, and to every •?*;)(171 Hi •> ' tl - ware is cheap,,light and nq^jtlv m'ide; and instead of becoming dull iike thsft of other wood, it throws whiter and smoother by use. Xhe.boopq are matte of young cedars stripped! of the bark, arid split Into Wrt parte. The w*ood gOfld cliarcoaL The red cedar furnishes staves, gfcopoofcks, stakes, and is also used for co^uns. ^ A few? othet* may Wiefly' nkmed; ise^irating Into trades a» fdllo#8,,Hap­ plying to the A merioap memufac kum: Sieves, usually of black or water ash fof the bottom, and oak or ^ickory fof the circle1, whip-stocks, white oak and shellbark hickory; picture-frames, white, pine and sweet gum; saddle trees, red maple and sugar maple; screw's of bookbinders'presses, hickory and dogw6od; hattets' blocks, corn shovels, butternut; sh4e lastis, beach and black or yellow birch., etc. ' This1 slight sketch, which is "by no moans complete, Will serve to giv%' ani idea of some of the ways in which tim­ ber is consumed, beside, being wasted and put to it$ legitimate f purpose^ in other manners. Theisms may seem berieath notice, but the aggregate must be somethingimportant.--Lumber Tittw bttrTtod# Journal ,• ... ..It ; v:> A New lias Fest Amo«f the CofB. ' 1'HE Mertden correspondent pf the Times sends us samples of ears'of cqrn, taken from a field there, which h&ve been ruinfed by a devouring pest, ana with thorn samples of the-bug which does the mischief. It is a good-sized, sjx-legged, evil-looking bug, rather* larger and rtjuch flatter than the pota­ to-bug: in color; brown, and having a *Kde body and ver^ small head, the latter provided with a pair of very small Qytenna, or "feelers." The creature begins ids ravages at .the tip end of the ear of corn^ and devours the "kernels aslie works onward toward the butt; leaving in his track Only aJ dirty mess o| brown husks of the separate kernels, after having devoured the sub­ stance. So far as we know, this crea­ ture may be a new visitor; and if h^ is going to ruin the corn as extensively &s the potato-bug' has, in so many quar­ ters, ruined the potato-crop, his pres­ ence will be a far greater calamity than anything that has been threatened by that already-famous pest . Our correspondent in feurlihgtbn, twelve or fifteen miles north westrof Meriden, sends us an aftoount oi the alarnaipg ravages of a new pest there, which may be this same creature. Fields of corn are ruiped almost in a single day, and, furth^*, acres of grass­ land will suddenly turn brown and, dead, and the turf itself can be rated off--the roots having all been cut by the ravages, of something which «the" Burlington farmers believe to be the same bug that ruins the corn.--Start*- f6r& \CoHn.) ThMS.-: ' 5 to .•r/R* ..Tbe Bcare SouW^oThowards/ want our readers to stop just for one moment and look at this matter. These nurses who have* gone out of the pure air of their homef to the plague- stricken towns, to handle and, tenderly care for dead syad dying men f who are utter stranger^ to them, need a higher courage than any soldiermarching into the thick of battle. They gain 'nothing, neither pay nor glory., Their victories are not watched by a proud country for whose honor they give their lives. If they die no wanping flatten will, year by year,,hang laurels on,:their graves.. The Howard nurse is only mentioned in the papers as "on€ of' twenty-five11 "arriving on stiib' a Hate), or **bne of twenty who are dead. His .name no­ body knows. Jf he falls, his friends only l^arn of it because he fails. to re­ turn. Tnerejs no battle-cry, or martial, "music to cTieer his soiif'in itslatet sfrug- gle with dfeath; !n the future therfe is to. be no • rofl-call of a victorious army, with the proud answer to his name, " liead upon the field of «hon©r»" He gives his life for some poor plagne- stricken wretch, probably of less value- to* ihe world than himself, in the poi-. soned stir of a solitary chambier, where there is none but Gjod Jtp Ifnov^r. He is buried hastily in a nameless grave, with shuddering and' fear, and quick­ lime is thrown upon his body. This sacrifice h@ makes out pf pure love to God and humanity, and this .sacrifice is now making, not by one man, but by everyone of the hundreds of nurses sent otit by the Howard Asspciatiop. Every­ one of them carries his life in "his hand as .he gom.^-N. Y. Tribune, , L > ,T~ • *7 •; y-r-- - The Toilet Habits of Ants. FACTS AKD FIGURES. «f officers in the branches of the Navy and Marine Corps, active and retired, is 2,067. THE English National debt is £777,- 7$1 In the last twenty years itiias been •Wfluied by the sum of £61,787,- 780. WrrH the thenbomjeter at 80 deg. below zero, the sensation of cold is said to be indistinguishable from that of heat. 1 HENRY "VLH., 4t in stated, in the course of his reign hanged no fewer than 72,000 robbers, thieves and vaga­ bonds; Itt the latter days of Elizabeth, scarcely a year passed without SOU or 400 criminals being executed on the gallows. ' , A NEW clothes line is the terror alike of the hugband who puts it out and takes it in, and the wife who uses it, but by boiling it for an hour or two it can be made perfectly soft andjpliable. It should be hung in a warm*%om to, drv and not allowed to *• kink." ( ENGLISHWOMEN are much more care­ ful about bones than Americans. They not only sdrape the bohe once but twice, reserving the fragments pro­ duced by the second scraping for mak­ ing omelets savory, and then cracking th<^bpne and boiling it in the soup- A VERY good fumigating^powder for the Sifck room may be prepared by mix­ ing equal parts of cascarilla powder, camomile 'flowers and anise seed. Sprinkle a very little on a shovel of hot coals and carry the shovel into every part of the room to be fumigated.--N. F. Times. ^ THE' penny post was devised in 1688 by one David Murray. It soon became an object of attention to the English Government; but so low were the prof­ its of the business one Dockwra, the successor of Murray, accepted a. pen­ sion of £200 a year in lieu ox it. This ocBtir^edin 1716. ' THE^numbet of ch'kn^eM'which may be rurg on a peal of bells is very cu- rious. The changes on seven bells are 6,0*0; on twelve, 479,001,600, which, at two strokes a second, would require ninety-one years to complete. The changes on fourteen bells could not be rung through, at the same rate, in less than 16,575 years, and on twenty-four the} would require more than 117,000,- Q00,000,000 years.--N. Y. Graphic. THE Massachusetts State life insur­ ance report shows that the mortality rate was favorable to the companies in 1877, but there Was a net loss of 21,000 in the number of policies outstanding, or about 5 per cent, in the amount at risk. The companies doing business in the Stat$ increased their assets $10,- 946,996, against an increase of $9,058,- 000 in liabilities, making a net gain of nearly $1,900*000. The ratio of assets to liabilities has risen, during 1877, from 110.19 to 111.10. . THE people of Moscow declare that their great bell shall never be pulled down from its glittering steeple, where it reigns ovef all other church-bells iu the world. Its weight is 443,772 pounds, while the other famous bells are light in comparison: St. Paul's, London, 13,000 pounds; Antwerp, 16,000; Ox­ ford, 17,000; York, 24,000; Montreal, 29,000; Rome, 19,000; Bruges, 23,000; Cologne, 25,0d0; Erfurt, 30,000: En­ glish House of Parliament, 81,000; Vi­ enna, 40,000; Novgorod, 69,000; Pekin, Jl36,000i ^S«ns, 34,000; Moscow (its sec­ ond), 141,0Q0. The great bell of Mos­ cow is nineteen feet high and sixty- ftfhi* fbet rtotind; its noise is tremendous. A -1 •* (!• f f t The Inventive Renins of Amerifca. < THU London Times, speaking of the mechanical display of the United States at the Paris Exhibition, "says: " It.piay almost certainly be predi­ cated of any modern mechanical con­ gress that the Americans will carry off the palm for novel and ingenious ap­ plication of force to practical purposes, the substitution of mechanism for hand labor in new and curious contrivances, which to the amateur in such matters surprise as much by the new ways in which old problem# are attacked as by the tine way in which the work is done. The maswof invention" «nd practical result from it produced by the Ameri­ cans within the century, and especially the last twenty or thirty years, is so reat and so important in results that presents an important problem in political economy--one especially in­ teresting to Englishmen, as American mechanism is an offshoot from English, but an offshoot so peculiar in its char­ acter that mere heredity will not quite explain it. " A traveler in the New World once said that tfte most interesting thing in America was its Americanism, and so we may say that the most curious feat­ ure of American mechanics is its dis^ tinctively American feature. As me­ chanical science progresses, the great­ er and more important inventions be­ come elaborated by and the property of the Nation who push that science furthest in its experimental studies. The result is foreseen, studied and de­ veloped with method and certainty, and grestrindustrial revolutions are ef­ fected with a certain and almost cal­ culable progress. In this process En­ gland has long led, and still leads, the world, owing to favorable conditions of capital atYd ' labor. Jt ulton built the first successful steamer on American waters; but all the latest and most im­ portant advances in steamship build­ ing are English. The first monitor was Americau; but the puny craft of that construction across the Atlantic would all go down before one of the last English build; and, though Bod- man and Dahlgren instituted the ex­ periments to which we owe most of the present knowledge of the power of ar- tillery and gunpowder, English artil­ lery has left the practical transatlantic results out of the chance of competition. " Yet, in spite of this, the activity and insight <rf the American inventive genius develops more that is new and practical in mechanism than all Europe combined. The New Englauder . in­ vents normally; his brain has a bias that way. He mechanizes as mi old Greek sculptured, as the Venetian painted, or the modern Italian sang; a school has grown up whose dominant THE Rev. H. C. McCook, of Phila­ delphia, eulogizes the neatness of the agricultural ant, as observed in con­ finement, at anv rate. The most mi­ nute particles of dirt are carefully re­ moved, and the whole bPdy is frequent­ ly and thoroughly cleansed, especially after eating and sleeping. They assist each other in the general cleansing, and the attitude of the ant under oper­ ation is one of intense satisfaction, like that pf a family dog being scratch­ ed, a perfect picture oi muscular sur render and ease. Mr. McCook has seen an ant kneel down before another, and thrust forward the head under the face of the other, and lie motionless, expressing quite plainly the desire to be cleansed; the other ant understood this; and went to work. Sometimes tnis is combined with acrobatic feats, in which these ants excel, jumping about and clinging to* blades of grass iu a remarkable fashion. Sometimes the cleansing ant hangs' downward- from tH6' grass, and to her tfye ant operated upon clings, reaching over and up with great agility to submit to l>er friend's offices." Evidently mois­ ture >from the mouth is used for wash­ ing. Mr. McCook has observed most minutely the whole of these'processes, which are recorded in the Philadelphia Academy's " Proceedings" for this year. He suggests that with .ants as with the human kind ap artificial (pn- dition induces greitet attention to per- | quality,'curiously intense, wide-spread sonal appearand. i • ' daring, is mechanical imagination. It is not the professed mechanic or ironmaster who invents, any more than than the schoolmaster or the farmer. As Tintoretto left his dyeing to become a great painter, the American, be he bank clerk, pedagogue, backwoods­ man or plowman, turns in his busy brain some problem of his own, sug gested by his experience of ill or too slowly-done work, and, like Archim­ edes in his bath, he suddenly finds it and rushes away with his ' Eureka1 to some place where he can make his model or get it made--more frequently the former for want of funds to get it made. There was a want the man had felt^an ideal to be worked oqt, ppd in his ^meditation suddenly the thing flashed on him, and is complete in aft its essential parts from that moment. The number of inventions, useful and useless, thrown off in this way in the course of a year, of which only a small proportion attain the realization of the- Patent Office, can only be imagined by those who have lived amohg New Ea- glandersM home." j *• Geraniums in Winter. * Fob the house, cuttings of geraniujns may be made now. They would have been better made a month ago, since this would have made better plants for early bloom. Nevertheless, the young rooted plants will begin to grow nicely about the time of cold weather, will bloom about mid-Winter, and make nice stocky plants for turning out of doors next summer, or for propagating from next spring. Prepare the cuttings from side shoots, preferably about three inches long. Take off the larger leaves, leaving ohiv those at the end. Stick these around a pot, about half an inch from the side, either in pure sand or in Soil of which sand forms the greater part. Keep quite moist, warm and shaded until they form a little root, when they may be potted into four-inch or five-inch pots. The soil should be composed of one-half good garden soil, and one-half clear sana; to this should be added one- quartet more of compost or barnyard scrapings, all intimately mixed and pa&suu biii ouglx a rather coarse sieve. Set the pots where they will not get too much sun for a few days,, but where they may be kept warm. Water when­ ever the pots get dry. When the plants are well established they may have con­ siderable heat until they throw up their flower stalks. They must not at any time be allowed to get chilled, though nothing short of frost will absolutely kill them. Thus you may have nice, stocky plants that will give far better satisfaction in bloom and present a much better appearance than the larger ones that were plunged into the flower bed last spring for summer flowering. Although geraniums are called con­ stant bloomers, they are in fact better foi: a season of rest. To give them this, the pots containing plants may be laid on their side for a time on tne north side of the house and water withneld. When it is required to again bring them forward, they should be placed upright and watered, giving also plen­ ty of heat? if it be moist heat so much the better. A better way is to repot them, especially if ini turning out the balls you find the roots have quite fully filled the pots. If so, cut away a por­ tion of the outside roots and repot in fresh soil. An excellent compost for geraniums is composed of two parts of well-rotted sod of good meadow loam and one part of cow manure well rot­ ted. This should not be made very fine, for this class of plants like a rather rough compost. At all events they do not succeed in a compact soil, however rich. At the time of repotting, if the plants are at all staggy, cut them back. They will break freely from the dor­ mant buds. In fact, it is better that they be cilt back at the time of giving them their rest, and the cuttings may be used to, form new plants, since the geranium roots easily from cuttings with warmth and moisture. At the occurrence of the first light frost, those geraniums that have bloomed in the garden--or better, before--should be taken up, the leaves stripped off and the plants healed in in a suitable box in sand or in soil in which sand forms the principal part. They will require only an occasional light watering dur­ ing winter; none if the soil is moist and a little moss be thoroughly packed around the base of the plants, indeed, many persons simply hang them in the cellar by their roots. This is, howev­ er, wrong, since thus thev are apt to become entirely dead at tjae root, and in the spring make so feeble growth that no satisfaction is obtained from them. As we have described, they may be easily kept in a partially lighted cel­ lar where the temperature is pretty uni­ form if it does not freeze.--Prairie Farmer. --For the last five years' I have not lost a cucumber or melon-vine or cab­ bage-plant. Get a barrel with a few gallons of gas-tar in its pour water on the tar; always have it ready when needed, and when the bugs appear give them a liberal drink of the tar- water from a sprinkler, or otherwise, and if the rain washes it off and they return repeat the dose. It will also destroy the Colorado potato-beetle and frighten the old long potato-bug worse than a threshing with a brush. Five years ago this summer both kinds ap­ peared on my late potatoes, and I wa­ tered with the tar-water. The next day all Colorados that had not been well protected from the sprinkling, were dead, and the others, though their name was legion, were all gone, and I .have never seen one of them on the farm since. I am aware that many will look upon this with indifference, because it is so cheap and simple a remedy. Such should always suffer both by their own and their neighbors1 bugs, as they frequently dov--Vfucago Tribune. • // UN I . • 1^ j tfi • ' / I --Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is fifty- three years old, weighs 222 pounds, and has never taken a dose of medicine, in his life. He has left for the plains on a hunting expedition A and says that he can yet walk his thirty miles in a day provided that some one will carry the game. | --The worst thing about a mosquito is its long soliloquy as to where and when it had better settle down and bite. --New Haven Register. Keligious. THE HAND ABOVE? % , [LINKS suggested by a paaoaee from Jeremy Taylor: "Nothing does no establish the mina. amidst the rollings and turbulence of present •hin<«» mm a look above them and a look beyond them; above them, to the steady and cooti Hand by which they are ruled; and beyond them, to the sweet, and beautiful end to which, by that Hand, they will be brought.") I come to my Savior with sorrow oppreat, A longing for comfort, a yearning for ram, And a voice seems to whisper a message of love. And I see gazing upward, a Hand from above; And the " rollings and turbulence" sink at my feet As I ri*e on my sool'A winfcs, that dear Hand to •fc, greet, Add ocyond them that beautifal end would I Can it be, my dear Master, such glory for me? Ah! welcome the sorrow--ah! joyful the pain. If the clasp of that Hand be the prize that I gam; If it keep me, and guide me, and lead me at »*/•< length, 4 TQ my ,jLoro and my BARKER, my glory WID • ' J ' s t r e n g t h . . • -ir E. Powell, In N. Y. ObseHter. Bonday-Scnool Lesson*, THIRD QCABT1S. Piayw" 8-is38 D«Ps« nrr%*lWTOvOUfln€|6B.. •.. uQK6 U •i«r*A • Seot. 2^--Review of the L--ona for , , Onr Work for God. THE errand on which God |sends us is always a practicable errand, provided there be a sincere desire on ouV part to accomplish the errand, to do the work; and in proportion to the effort demand­ ed, to the seif-denial required, His au­ thorship of the message concerning the work becomes more evident to the thoughtful and refle^ve Christian mind. We usually judge in exactly the opposite way. We say, " That is a good work, and I can do it in a min­ ute; therefore I will do it, that is God's errand for me. It is a good work, and I can help it by a little gift which I never shall miss. That is evidently God's plan for me." Thus we reason: ah! but God's plan exactly reverses that. He makes duty the more obliga­ tory the more difficult it is, because for the development of Christian energy in us, Christian generosity, Christian pa­ tience, he gives us the work to be done by us. God can do His own work without us, and when one by one the great teachers of the Church have passed »w»y, and the Christian Church tarrying behind has felt that the horse­ men and chariots of Israel had gone from its sight forever and there was no more guardianship and no more in­ spiration, God has raised up others to take their places, or has carried on His work without such signal and illustri­ ous spirits to be leaders in it, to show that He never depended upon- any one human soul, upon any twenty, upon any million human souls for the accomplish­ ment of His plan. He carries them for­ ward by His own might as the ocean carries the log--because of ij» own majesty and buoyancy. God does not need our help. Why then does He ask for it? Why put us to the trouble of working for Him, why put us to the strain of giving for Him, why put us to the long endurance of patiently plan­ ning and waiting that we may accom­ plish His design? Because thus He de­ velops us. This is His spiritual univer­ sity in the world. Thus He applies not tests merely, but incitements, stim­ ulants, means of instruction, to what­ ever is best in us. The man who .has given himself to his country loves it better, the man who has fought for his friend honors him more, ^he man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve. The man who has wrought and planned and endured for the ac­ complishment of Gfd's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the di­ vinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it. -- Dr. Storrs. Of WisdOH and Forethought in Actions. our WE must not trust every saying' or suggestion, but warily and .patiently ponder things according to the will of God. Yet, alas! such is our weakness, that we often rather toeiieve and speak evil of others than good. But perfect men do not easily credit every one who speaks to them; for they know that human frailty is prone to evil, and ever subject to' error in words. It is great wisdom not to be rash in thy doings, nor ft? "stand stiffly in thine own conceits. As also not to believe everything which thou hearest, nor immediately to relate again to others what thou . hast heard or dost believe. Consult with him that is wise and of sound judgment, and seek to be in­ structed by one better than thyself, rather than to follow thine own inven­ tions. A good life maketh a man wise ac­ cording to God, and giveth him experi­ ence in many things. The more humble a man is in him­ self, and the more subject unto God, the more wise and peaceful shall he be in all things.--Thomas a' Keifnpis. Quiet Hours. "I FKEL as if I were so useless," said one who had passed by several years the Psalmist's limit of threescore and ten. " And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow," said David; and observation confirms'the truth of his words every day. When age with its infirmities has come there are few who preserve the buoyancy and vigor of earlier times. But the old should never c ill them­ selves useless. We younger «ues do not think them so. We go to them for counsel, and we prira Uieir gathered and ripened experience. We love to sit at their feet and listen to their stories of life and love, thtijir reminiscences of childhood, and their recollections of the heat and burden of their noonday. Even though they must sit with folded hands, let them not complain, for these quiet hours have many compensations, and much to make them delightful. It is always agreeable to be the re­ cipient of courtesy and refined atten­ tion. By pommon consent, in Christian households, the easiest chair, the cosi­ est corner, the best seat at the table and most desirable place everywhere is given to the grandparents. ̂ Jhe voipes of others are hushed to hear their tremulous accents, and the strong arm, the quick step and the alert faculties of youth are at their service to command. If grandpa cannot see to read his paper, Edith or Mary is ready to teU hi*** its contents ot read them to him!"" If grandma cannot thread her needle, there are bright eyes and dimfMflands which are eager and deft, ana very swiftly do it for her. There are many homes here in which such a picture as Mrs. Field drew of the grandmother in France would be true to life: " Grand­ mother--the queen of that little realm. How charming-she is, with her white hair, and that little cap, so matronly and becoming! She is still young in her feelings. She is the one of whom the young married couple take counsel; it is into her discreet ear that the son, just home from college, confides lis first attempt at poetry or eloquence; to her the young girl whispers the secret of her first love." Take the comfort of your quiet hours, dear aged friends. Already yon are in­ vested with some of the radiance of the bright Heaven to which you are g&ing. look at you reverentially, and evary day you spend with us is precious.-- Christian at Work. The Progress of Christianity lin Ibflfo. WE have already recorded the great accession of converts to the Baptist Telugu Mission. There has been s a wonderful ingathering at other points, showing that there is a pretty general movement of Hindus toward Christian­ ity. In the Diocesfc of the Episcopal Church at Madras there have been 22,- 000 additions in a littleover six months. There has also been an accession of 800 or 900 families, embracing about 6,000 persons, to the Arcot Mission of the Dutch Reformed Church. These, with the 5,422 at the Telugu Mission, make the aggregate of about 38,000 re­ ferred to by us last week. It is proba­ ble that a large portion of , these have been drawn to Christianity as a result of the aid rendered during the famine. The Hindus saw and recognized/this aid as the fruit of a religion infinitely superior, even in its human aspects, to their own, and hence have embraced it, rightly judging it by its fruits. It is expected, from indications, that this is but the beginning of a work such as has not been seen in the history of missions. Even as it now stands, it exceeds any­ thing which has transpired sine© the beginning of modern missions in the East.--Chicago Standard, London Smoke. THE houses of London are mostly built of y«116w brick; but those of a more pretentious character are of a yellowish sandstone, which soon be­ comes blackened with the smoke that enshrouds the city. Iron buildings are not known here--at least, we have not met with any in our wanderings over the city, they being an entirely Amer­ ican institution. A stranger in Lon­ don is astonished at the appearance of most of its public buildings and churches. They are built mostly of white marble; but the smoke has blackened them to such an extent that were it not that their bases and some­ times a portion of their cornices are white, they might be supposed to be of black marble. The columns in front of St. Paul's Cathedral are densely black; and so is most of the vast struct­ ure. If a pot of black paint was poured over the magnificent statue of Queen Elizabeth and her four maids of honor, which stand in front of the Cs&hedral, it would scarcely be noticed, so black have they become. The National Gal­ lery, on Trafalgar Square, is decided­ ly black, and the grand old Church of St. Martin-in-the-TFields, on Trafalgar Square, is, if possible, blacker. The walls under the portico and most of the columns in front would never be sup­ posed to be of pure white marble. As there is a scaffolding being erected around, it, the purpose is possibly to clean it of the accumulated smoke of ages. They probably think with the gamin, who, when asked why he did not wash his face, replied, " What's the useP It will only get dirty again." --London Cor. Baltimore American. Brlgmlftge In Chill* The Panama Star and Herald, of a recent date, says: " Brigandage is ap­ parently on the increase in Chili. In the southern part of the State bands of desperadoes associate themselves to­ gether for purposes of robbery and murder. These bands are large and formidable, are thoroughly organized under apparently intelligent leader­ ship, ana can only be resisted and overcome by organized force. The rec­ ord of their crimes is something^ ap­ palling. Murders the most revolting horrify the community, and are com­ mitted with apparently no other object in the world than to aestroy witnesses to the foul deeds, on the principle that dead men tell no tales. One of these bands consists of thirty men, who are under the command of a scoundrel who almost excels in ferocity Nena Sa­ hib. They have their Headquarters near Lebu, and no passei*-by, esxeept in daylight and under peculiarly fortu­ nate circumstances, escapes with his property and life. The rural police ap­ pear to be utterly powerless to control the evil, either from want of strength or organization, or from lack of pur­ pose. The evil has become so serious that it calls loudly for Government in­ terference. The bandies are of the very lowest order, mostly half-breeds and domesticated Indians... naturally vicious and ignorant, who were led to crime by their own fiendish instincts, and encouraged in it through the laxi­ ty of the laws and the inefficiency of the magistracy and the police. Now that their Congress is in session, Chile- nos should see to it th»\t this moral ex­ crescence is promptly and efficaciously removed." --*' Do lets 'ave a little hair," said a fat English matron riding in a street bus; " hits too "ot to ride and' too 'ot to walk; I h'am h'iutirely h'Upset^' I ' * . " " ' THE chemical composition of hoofs, hair, wool and feathers is said to be su'oi.ta::tially the same.